Charles Woodmason

Charles Woodmason (1720-March 1789) was an Anglican itinerant preacher among the American backcountry settlers during the mid-18th century.

Biography
Charles Woodmason was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England in 1720, and he left for the Thirteen Colonies in 1752 and settled in South Carolina. For several decades, he was a prosperous merchant and planter, but, as a pious Anglican, he decided to become an itinerant minister to backcountry settlers in North and South Carolina. He preached to settlers who had migrated south from Virginia and Pennsylvania; to both German and Scots-Irish immigrants as well as native-born settlers who were Presbyterians, Baptists, Lutherans, Quakers, and many other variations of Protestantism. His sermons attacked "New Light" faiths, and he later returned to England during the American Revolutionary War due to his loyalist sympathies. He died in 1789.